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the Chinese) grows to a handsome tree of 8 in. diameter, in 

 the botanic garden at Marseilles. The trunk is straight, 

 with a fine smooth bark. There are some at Avignon like- 

 wise in the open air. At Lyons and at Paris it is usually 

 kept in the green-house, although it is there considered capa- 

 ble of bearing the cold of ordinary winters, when sheltered 

 from the north, and when covered in time of frost. 



" There are but few places on the coast of Provence and 

 Languedoc where orange trees grow all the year in the open 

 air, and these are in situations well sheltered from the north. 

 Hieres is one of them : it is situated 50' south of the parallel 

 of Florence. At Rome, which is upwards of a degree farther 

 south than Hieres, the orange trees are covered in winter 

 with sheds, having large apertures in front, which are closed 

 at night by shutters made of reeds, and opened in the day to 

 admit the sun ; and at Aleppo, lat. SQ° \ 2', nearly under the 

 same parallel with Gibraltar, Russell states that orange trees 

 are removed into the house in winter, although they bear the 

 open air in places nearer the sea in the same geographical 

 latitude." 



(Tb be continued.') 



Art. III. Verhandlungen des Vereins zur Beforderung des Gar- 

 tenbaues in den Koniglich Preussischen Staaten. Transactions 

 of the Society for the Advancement of Gardening in the Royal 

 Prussian States. 4to, 2 Plates. Vol. V. Berlin, 1828. 



1. Extracts Jrom the London Horticultural Society's Transactionsy 



Vol. vii. Part i. 



The essence of all the articles is given In eleven pages. 



2. On the Propagation and Culture of Roses. By M. Stichler of 



Dresden. 



The following roses are said to flower more freely, and 

 with larger better-filled double blossoms, when budded on 

 brier stocks, than when on their own roots : jRosa centifolia 

 Sultana, R. hollandica maxima, or La Duchesse de Gram- 

 mont, and R, imica [unique ? ] carnea, and R. pimpinellifcMia. 



The following sorts should be worked on i26sa semper- 

 florens, on which they will bloom early, and abundandy : — 

 R. musco&a, and its several varieties ; R. unica, R. centifolia 

 sulphurea, and R. nigra vera. 



3. Notices ofivhat took place at the Meeting of Jan. 6. 1828. 

 A paper was read, written by M. Schoch, head-gardener 

 at Wcirlitz ; describing that celebrated place, which was 



